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Stalled Shore hospital gets federal grant

EASTON - The Commerce Department is awarding $1.6 million to Talbot County to support the construction of a new hospital in Easton - if it gets built.

The grant announced Friday would help pay for construction of a wastewater system and pump station to serve the new Shore Health System medical center.

But Shore Health System announced last month that its plans to build the new $250 million hospital are on hold indefinitely.

The Commerce Department says Memorial Hospital at Easton is no longer large enough to serve the mid-Shore region, and that relocating the hospital would potentially move 2,100 jobs out of the area and hurt access to health care.

Del. chicken has eastern equine encephalitis

DOVER - Health and environmental officials in Delaware say a sentinel chicken has tested positive for eastern equine encephalitis. This is the first such finding since 2008.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental control said Friday that the Delaware Public Health Laboratory has confirmed the presence of the virus, which occurred within a statewide network of 24 sentinel chicken stations.

The chicken was sampled at a monitoring station near Frankford in Sussex County. Environmental officials have taken additional mosquito control actions.

Transmission of EEE to humans is often linked to saltmarsh mosquitoes or closely related freshwater wetland species. The last recorded case of EEE in humans in Delaware was in 1979.

There are no approved EEE vaccines for humans. Effective EEE vaccines are available for horses through veterinarians.

Del. man faces long list of drug, gun charges

SMYRNA, Del. - A Smyrna man is facing a long list of drug and gun charges after a state police investigation into heroin dealing in the area.

Police say they pulled over 21-year-old Tykeme Robinson on Friday and took him into custody.

Then, police executed a search warrant at a hotel room, where they found 62 bags containing a total of more than a gram of heroin, along with a stolen semiautomatic handgun.

Police later searched a storage unit linked to Robinson, where they found four more guns and ammunition. The guns included a sawed-off shotgun, a rifle and two handguns.­

Robinson is being held on $147,000 bond.

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The Commerce Department is awarding $1.6 million to Talbot County to support the construction of a new hospital in Easton ? if it gets built.